DEFINICIÓN, DESCRIPCIÓN Y ESTUDIO DE LOS SIMULADORES EN SOFTWARE LIBRE UTILIZADOS PARA EL APRENDIZAJE DE LA FÍSICA
This paper identity the state of the development of simulations in free software for physics and to development a repository prototype to register educational resources in Internet, facilitating the access to the community.
Their results allow establishing the state of the simulation in software free with educational purpose; for software type, of language programming, of license, of operating system and area of knowledge, as area pilot it was the physics.
It allowed to identify projects of use o simulators in it usa, Canada, Argentina, Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Germany, England, Japan, China, Taiwan, Israel and Colombia, in 50 projects and already of 2097 resources.
It was define the methodological model for the use of simulators in the education. The methodological model is sustained in the active learning (cf. Huber, 1997), the learning based on problems (Barrows, 2008), the incremental development of abilities and the support of the Information Technology (it), in order to make use of this software in the education.
A test pilot of use of simulators was made, this it allowed to identify: advantages and disadvantages of the use of simulators. These educational resources offer alternative of access economic and excellent quality to improve the educational processes
